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Christmas Flings and Wedding Rings by Beth Rain
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Christmas, Lucy Brown turned to her best friend and found the love of her life staring back at her. One year later . . .She’s got a wedding to organise…An entire village to cook Christmas dinner for…And she’s sure she’s forgotten something… oh yeah, her wedding dress!But Lucy’s determined to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch… especially when it comes to getting hitched... -
![The Case of the Brokenhearted Bartender by Tiffany Reisz]()
The Case of the Brokenhearted Bartender by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the private files of Nora Sutherlin, The Mistress.Kingsley Edge, owner of the 8th Circle BDSM club, has ordered her to compose client profiles so the other Dominatrixes in his employ can learn from her expert erotic encounters. She’s the best Dominatrix at the club and her clients always leave satisfied.. -
![Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein]()
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
![Rocket Fantastic: Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi]()
Rocket Fantastic: Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLike nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic transfigures the landscape and language of gender and the body. Its poems are populated by figures both familial and fabular: a prodigal brother and a relentless father; the Hermit, Dowager, and Major General; and, perhaps most strikingly, the Bandleader, embodiment of sexual, capitalistic, and political dominance... -
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![Avocado Asks: What Am I? by Momoko Abe]()
Avocado Asks: What Am I? by Momoko Abe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvocado is feeling just fine in the fruit and veg aisle at the supermarket - until a young customer asks a difficult question: "Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable?" Avocado doesn't know the answer either - and the question won't seem to go away!A brilliantly funny book about identity and being confident in your own skin - featuring the world's most popular... -
![Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich]()
Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space & a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural/ personal narratives about blackness & transmasculinity... -
![The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess]()
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlaying off "The Wheels on the Bus," this dazzling nursery rhyme book covers all the ways drag queens "work it," by one of the drag queens from the nationally acclaimed Drag Queen Story Hour.The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are... -
![Binding Devotion by Kiki Archer]()
Binding Devotion by Kiki Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“What’s more important … the bond of marriage or the pull of desire?” “But what’s more powerful?” Andi Armstrong is the 29-year-old CEO of the UK’s largest LGBT campaigning organisation, Proud Unity. She’s a public figure, an empowering speaker, a devoted boss and a loyal wife. Or so she thought... -
![Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang]()
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike... -
![The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau]()
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character... -
![Princess Kevin by Michaël Escoffier, Roland Garrigue]()
Princess Kevin by Michaël Escoffier, Roland Garrigue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis year, Kevin is going to the school costume show as a princess. His costume is perfect but he knows that the best costumes are authentic. So he is outraged that none of the knights will partner with him and complete the look. Things don't go quite a smoothly as he planned. Next year, there is only one thing for it. He will just have to be something even more fabulous... -
![Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal]()
Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace... -
![Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang]()
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence... -
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![Seminar on Youth by Aldo Busi]()
Seminar on Youth by Aldo Busi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Seminar on Youth" is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he pursues relationships, most memorably with an insecure French girl, and through her, with her circle of bourgeois women friends... -
![The Identity Matrix by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Identity Matrix by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Like many of Jack Chalker's earlier books, this one is almost totally unpredictable and will keep you guessing to the last page".--The Milwaukee Journal. Victor Gonser finds himself trapped in one body after another as he unwillingly becomes part of a skirmish over Earth by two alien races... -
![A Dirty Drag Collection by Kyle Adams]()
A Dirty Drag Collection by Kyle Adams
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContains Dirty Drag , Dirty Drag 2: The Night Drags On , and Dirty Drag 3: Beyond The Drag . If you haven't read the Dirty Drag series, here is your chance to read them all at once... -
![Design Flaws of the Human Condition by Paul Schmidtberger]()
Design Flaws of the Human Condition by Paul Schmidtberger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defacing library books with rude (but true!) messages about his former boyfriend. The boyfriend that he caught in bed with another man... -
![Leap Year by Peter Cameron]()
Leap Year by Peter Cameron
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Leap Year attests to Mr. Cameron’s blossoming satiric gifts and his instinctive feeling for the confusions of a generation.” —The New York Times As the curtain falls on the vibrant, gritty New York of the 1980s, just-divorced David and Loren Parish watch their lives come apart—but not before one last year of self-absorbed fun... -
![Myron by Gore Vidal]()
Myron by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWho pushed Myron Breckinridge through his television screen and onto the set of 'Siren of Babylon'? Who is the mysterious Mr. Williams? And who is the mad cook Whittaker Kaiser, or Maude the mischievous hair bender? Who wants to stop history in its tracks so as to preserve permanently the world of Louis B... -
![Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy]()
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe official tie-in book for the beloved, nine-time Emmy® Award-winning series Schitt's Creek. This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt's Creek... -
![Rebent Sinner by Ivan E. Coyote]()
Rebent Sinner by Ivan E. Coyote
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIvan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has received over 1.6 million views online... -
![Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis]()
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th centuryFriends of baking, are you sick and tired of making the same recipes again and again? Then look no further than this baking blast from the past, as B. Dylan Hollis highlights the most unique tasty treats of yesteryear... -
![Dan and Phil Go Outside by Phil Lester, Daniel Howell]()
Dan and Phil Go Outside by Phil Lester, Daniel Howell
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSHORTLISTED FOR THE FUTUREBOOK AWARDS 2017Dan Howell and Phil Lester, avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight, actually went outside. Travelling around the world on tour, they have collected hundreds of exclusive, intimate and funny photos, as well as revealing and captivating side notes, to show the behind-the-scenes story of their adventure... -
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![The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans by Jamie Raines]()
The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans by Jamie Raines
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA practical and highly accessible guide for those navigating society as a trans person or trying to gain understanding of the trans experience, from psychologist, content creator, and LGBTQ+ advocate Jamie Raines, with over one million YouTube subscribers. Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK... -
![Cinzia by Leo Ortolani]()
Cinzia by Leo Ortolani
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDi tutti i personaggi che Leo Ortolani ha creato all'interno della saga ormai quasi trentennale di Rat-Man, uno dei più amati e memorabili è senz'altro Cinzia, la transessuale platinata. Con questo massiccio romanzo grafico inedito, Leo racconta Cinzia come non l’avete mai conosciuta, tra amore, consapevolezza di sé, esposizione dell’ipocrisia dei perbenisti, pathos, comicità e musical... -
![Am I Trans Enough? How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self by Alo Johnston]()
Am I Trans Enough? How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self by Alo Johnston
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAm I Trans Enough? The answer is undoubtably yes. You are.Alo Johnston has been where you are. From watching every transition story on YouTube and navigating online message boards for answers to finally starting testosterone and transitioning himself, he now walks alongside you every step of the way to guide you towards acceptance of who you truly are... -
![Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace, Dan Ozzi]()
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace, Dan Ozzi
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME"The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self... -
![How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty]()
How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEver wonder what nonbinary or gender nonconforming really mean? And how the heck do you use they/them pronouns for just one person? Isn't it supposed to be plural?This charming and disarming guide unpacks all these questions and more with a fun, visual approach. From a real-deal they/them-using genderqueer writer, this book makes it humorous and easy to learn so that everyone can get it... -
![Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird]()
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy...
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